I am currently looking at replacing the window furnishings in our living/dining room. I'm just not really sure what avenue to pursue. We live in a small town outside of Brisbane with beautiful views of the hills and whilst privacy isn't really an issue, the summer sun does hit this side of the house which turns it into an oven for the day. I love the look of s wave sheers and I'm thinking of pairing those with blockout roller blinds (and panel curtains in the same fabric for the sliding door) to protect against the sun during summer. If I go with this option, should I hang the sheers from the ceiling or just above the window frame? If I go with the latter, how much higher from the window frame should I go? I'm also open to any other suggestions anyone might have for alternative window coverings!

We have a small two bedroom double brick house in Preston, VIC and we have a major humidity issue especially in two built-in wardrobes. Now I must point out that this house was built around 1925 and where the wardrobes are located use to be a veranda that fronted the master bedroom. This was built in before we purchased the house and we replaced the old wardrobes with the builtins in 2008. There is no obvious sign of mould, however we are having to empty out two tubs of damp rid a month of extracted humidity. We have central heating through the rood space and vents, and feel that the combination of humidity created by the heating and the rapid cooling due to the location of the builtin wardrobes (front of house) near the external walls maybe the culprit; but we have also noticed that there doesn't seem to be any subfloor vent grill where it was bricked in. As you can see from the images, the window on the left side behind the tree, is the room in question, and I recently removed a whole bunch of plants in the hope that it would provide a dryer and well ventilated area around the window. Not yet sure if this will make any difference. I am in between employment and my wife works in retail, so money is tight and that's why we are reaching out to the Houzz community in the hopes that you can assist us in addressing this humidity issue with an affordable resolution.

Thanks @asorbak! The Double Hung windows on the left are from the Essential range, and the Louver windows on the right are from the Signature range. With the design symmetry of our products, you're able to mix and match from our Essential, Signature and Commercial range. Would love to see the images once you're done!

Yes. I couldn’t find it in my profile though but here is the link. https://www.houzz.co.uk/discussions/5879722/ceilings-floors-and-weatherboard-questions it was kind of an unrelated question re matching ceilings Which is now redundant as it was a question pertaining to the old floor plan. If we keep our current floor plan, we don’t need to match the ceilings as we no longer have the combined dining living - theyre now separated by the kitchen. The deck on the floor plan is now to be knocked down and turned into a dining room. Haven’t got a floor plan for that since we just got the news from council. Trying to warm my husband to it. Otherwise he wants to move! I’m wanting the wall to be weatherboard under the windows to match our weatherboard living room. We have a nice view from the deck hence to keep that going in the new dining room w these windows. this is advice from council. The deck would eventually need to be replaced in the next ten years as it’s an old house so I’m not bothered we would pull it down as we would have to anyway but to be replaced w a new deck. Just looking for advice on type of window rather than any comments on council is. My hubby is doing a lot of dining about it!